15 Sep
2003
15 Sep
'03
12:24 p.m.
I was pretty disappointed with a box of misc I bought last week, nice
looking stuff, that does not work. A 1.2 GB drive, but aack, its a Conner
CPF1275A, and I had no luck making it appear to any computer (Seagate
remembers it, but their install tool doesn't support it. Essentially for
$40 I got a sink for about 10 hours of my time.
Good news
Two of the funky CD drives were the same brand, so I started looking for
the problems. Both had stuck doors, and one even turned out to be a DVD
drive. I took them apart, and turns out most of the drive mechanism is the
same, and while one had a broken lever, the DVD only had a bad gear which I
managed to swap. End result, one working drive, one still in the parts
donor bin.